U.S. patent application number 14/408505 was filed with the patent office on 2015-05-28 for user equipment supporting communication in a multicarrier radio communication system and a method therein for receiving information.
This patent application is currently assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ). The applicant listed for this patent is Robert Baldemair, Jung-Fu Cheng, Mattias Frenne, Havish Koorapaty, Daniel Larsson, Stefan Parkvall. Invention is credited to Robert Baldemair, Jung-Fu Cheng, Mattias Frenne, Havish Koorapaty, Daniel Larsson, Stefan Parkvall.
Application Number | 20150146640 14/408505 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 49783596 |
Filed Date | 2015-05-28 |
United States Patent
Application |
20150146640 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Baldemair; Robert ; et
al. |
May 28, 2015 |
User Equipment Supporting Communication in a Multicarrier Radio
Communication System and a Method Therein for Receiving
Information
Abstract
A User Equipment, UE, supporting communication in a multicarrier
radio communication system and a method therein for receiving
information from a Radio Base Station, RBS, are provided. The
method comprises determining 310 a bandwidth by which the UE will
receive information, the bandwidth comprising a plurality of
sub-carriers. The method also comprises adjusting 320 a bandwidth
of the UE to correspond to the determined bandwidth by which the UE
will receive information; and fine tuning 330 a local oscillator of
the UE such that a centre frequency of a local oscillator does not
coincide with a predetermined subcarrier transmitted from the
RBS.
Inventors: |
Baldemair; Robert; (Solna,
SE) ; Cheng; Jung-Fu; (Fremont, CA) ; Frenne;
Mattias; (Uppsala, SE) ; Koorapaty; Havish;
(Saratoga, CA) ; Larsson; Daniel; (Vallentuna,
SE) ; Parkvall; Stefan; (Bromma, SE) |
|
Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Baldemair; Robert
Cheng; Jung-Fu
Frenne; Mattias
Koorapaty; Havish
Larsson; Daniel
Parkvall; Stefan |
Solna
Fremont
Uppsala
Saratoga
Vallentuna
Bromma |
CA
CA |
SE
US
SE
US
SE
SE |
|
|
Assignee: |
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
(publ)
STOCKHOLM
SE
|
Family ID: |
49783596 |
Appl. No.: |
14/408505 |
Filed: |
June 27, 2012 |
PCT Filed: |
June 27, 2012 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/SE2012/050723 |
371 Date: |
December 16, 2014 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
370/329 |
Current CPC
Class: |
H04L 27/2665 20130101;
H04L 5/0007 20130101; H04L 5/0044 20130101; H04L 27/2675 20130101;
H04L 5/0051 20130101; H04L 27/2689 20130101; H04L 27/2647 20130101;
H04W 72/042 20130101; H04L 27/2666 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
370/329 |
International
Class: |
H04W 72/04 20060101
H04W072/04; H04L 5/00 20060101 H04L005/00; H04L 27/26 20060101
H04L027/26 |
Claims
1. A method in a User Equipment, UE, supporting communication in a
multicarrier radio communication system for receiving information
from a Radio Base Station, RBS, the method comprising: determining
a bandwidth by which the UE will receive information, the bandwidth
comprising a plurality of subcarriers, adjusting a bandwidth of the
UE to correspond to the determined bandwidth by which the UE will
receive information, fine tuning a local oscillator of the UE such
that a centre frequency of a local oscillator does not coincide
with a predetermined subcarrier transmitted from the RBS.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the predefined subcarrier
comprises a Demodulation Reference Signal, DMRS.
3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the predefined subcarrier
comprises a Physical Downlink Shared Channel, PDSCH.
4. A method according to claim 1, wherein determining a bandwidth
by which the UE will receive information comprises receiving
information from the RBS indicating the bandwidth.
5. A method according to claim 1, wherein determining a bandwidth
by which the UE will receive information comprises determining the
number of subcarriers of the bandwidth and/or a location of the
subcarriers with regard to frequency within a system bandwidth.
6. A method according to claim 1, wherein information indicating
which subcarrier is the predetermined subcarrier is signalled from
the RBS.
7. A method according to claim 1, wherein information indicating
which subcarrier is the predetermined subcarrier is determined by
the UE.
8. A method according to claim 1, wherein if the centre frequency
of the local oscillator coincides with the predetermined
subcarrier, then the method comprises selecting at least one filter
parameter to expand the bandwidth of the UE to include at least a
portion of at least one additional subcarrier and tuning the local
oscillator to shift the centre frequency of the oscillator towards
an edge of the bandwidth in order for the centre frequency of the
oscillator not coinciding with the predetermined subcarrier.
9. A method according to claim 1, wherein if the centre frequency
of the local oscillator coincides with the predetermined
subcarrier, then the method comprises selecting at least one filter
parameter to reduce the bandwidth of the UE to exclude at least a
portion of at least one subcarrier and tuning the local oscillator
to shift the centre frequency of the oscillator towards an edge of
the bandwidth in order for the centre frequency of the oscillator
not coinciding with the predetermined subcarrier.
10. A method according to claim 1, wherein the multicarrier radio
communication system is an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex,
OFDM, based system.
11. A User Equipment, UE, supporting communication in a
multicarrier radio communication system adapted for receiving
information from a Radio Base Station, RBS, the UE comprising a
processing unit adapted to: determine a bandwidth by which the UE
will receive information, the bandwidth comprising a plurality of
subcarriers, and to adjust a bandwidth of the UE to correspond to
the determined bandwidth by which the UE will receive information,
the UE further comprising a local oscillator adapted to position
the bandwidth of the UE with regards to frequency, wherein the
processing unit further is adapted to tune the local oscillator
such that a centre frequency of the local oscillator does not
coincide with a predetermined subcarrier transmitted from the
RBS.
12. A UE according to claim 11, wherein the predefined subcarrier
comprises a Demodulation Reference Signal, DMRS.
13. A UE according to claim 11, wherein the predefined subcarrier
comprises a Physical Downlink Shared Channel, PDSCH.
14. A UE according to claim 11, further comprising a receiving
unit, adapted to receive bandwidth information from the RBS,
wherein the processing unit is adapted to determine a bandwidth by
which the UE will receive information based on the received
bandwidth information.
15. A UE according to claim 11, wherein the processing unit is
adapted to determine the bandwidth by which the UE will receive
information by determining the number of subcarriers of the
bandwidth and/or a location of the subcarriers with regard to
frequency within a system bandwidth.
16. A UE according to claim 11, further comprising a receiving unit
adapted to receive a signalling message from the RBS, the
signalling message comprising information indicating which
subcarrier is the predetermined subcarrier.
17. A UE according to claim 11, wherein the processing unit further
is adapted to determine which subcarrier is the predetermined
subcarrier based on information available to the UE.
18. A UE according to claim 11, wherein the processing unit further
is adapted to determine if the centre frequency of the local
oscillator coincides with the predetermined subcarrier, and if so,
the processing unit is adapted to select at least one filter
parameter to expand the bandwidth of the UE to include at least a
portion of at least one additional subcarrier, and adopted to tune
the local oscillator to shift the centre frequency of the
oscillator towards and edge of the bandwidth in order for the
centre frequency of the oscillator not coinciding with the
predetermined subcarrier.
19. A UE according to claim 11, wherein the processing unit further
is adapted to determine if the centre frequency of the local
oscillator coincides with the predetermined subcarrier, and if so,
the processing unit is adapted to select at least one filter
parameter to reduce the bandwidth of the UE to exclude at least a
portion of at least one subcarrier, and adopted to tune the local
oscillator to shift the centre frequency of the oscillator towards
an edge of the bandwidth in order for the centre frequency of the
oscillator not coinciding with the predetermined subcarrier.
20. A UE according to claim 11, wherein the multicarrier radio
communication system is an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex,
OFDM, based system.
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The present disclosure relates to radio communication and in
particular to a user equipment supporting communication in a
multicarrier radio communication system and a method therein for
receiving information.
BACKGROUND
[0002] A multicarrier radio communication system supports radio
communication between two nodes in the system, e.g. a user
equipment, UE, and a radio base station, RBS, by providing a
frequency spectrum of a plurality of subcarriers carrying
communication between the two nodes.
[0003] There are different types of radio communication systems
employing a multicarrier based solution for supporting
communication between two nodes in the radio communication system.
One example of such a type of a radio communication system is Long
Term Evolution, LTE.
[0004] LTE uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex. OFDM, in
the downlink and Discrete Fourier Transform, DFT, spread OFDM in
the uplink. The basic LTE physical communication resources can thus
be seen as a time-frequency grid, as illustrated in the example in
FIG. 1a, where each resource element corresponds to one subcarrier
during one OFDM symbol interval (on a particular antenna port).
[0005] In the time domain, LTE downlink transmissions are organized
into radio frames of 10 ms, each radio frame including ten
equally-sized subframes of 1 ms as illustrated in FIG. 1b. A
subframe is divided into two slots, each of 0.5 ms time
duration.
[0006] The resource allocation in LTE is described in terms of
resource blocks, where a resource block corresponds to one slot
(0.5 ms) in the time domain and 12 contiguous 15 kHz subcarriers in
the frequency domain. Two consecutive resource blocks (in time)
represent a resource block pair and correspond to the time interval
upon which transmission scheduling operates. Resource blocks are
numbered in the frequency domain, starting with 0 from one end of
the system bandwidth.
[0007] The notion of virtual resource blocks, VRB, and physical
resource blocks, PRB, has been introduced in LTE. The actual
resource allocation to a UE is made in terms of VRB pairs. There
are two types of resource allocations, localised and distributed.
In the localised resource allocation, a VRB pair is directly mapped
to a PRB pair, hence two consecutive and localised VRBs are also
placed as consecutive PRBs in the frequency domain. On the other
hand, the distributed VRB are not mapped to consecutive PRBs in the
frequency domain, thereby providing frequency diversity for data
channel transmitted using these distributed VRBs.
[0008] FIG. 2 illustrates a mapping of physical control/data
channels and signals onto resource elements within a downlink
subframe. In this example, the Physical Downlink Control Channels,
PDCCHs, occupy the first out of three possible OFDM symbols, so in
this particular case the mapping of data could start at the second
OFDM symbol. Since the Cell-specific Reference Signal, CRS, is
common to all UEs in the cell, the transmission of CRS cannot be
easily adapted to suit the needs of a particular UE. This is in
contrast to UE-specific RS (Demodulation Reference Signals, DMRS)
where each UE has RS of its own placed in the data region of FIG. 2
as part of the PDSCH.
[0009] In the downlink, DL, of LTE, an unused Direct Current, DC,
subcarrier in introduced. No information is mapped onto this
subcarrier. For transmission bandwidths with an even number of
resource blocks, the DC subcarrier is inserted between PRB N/2-1
and N/2, where N is the number of PRBs. For an odd number of PRBs,
the DC subcarrier divides the PRB floor (N/2) into two halves.
[0010] Local oscillator leakage, mainly at the terminal side, may
create large interference that after demodulations falls onto the
DC subcarrier. Therefore, the DC subcarrier is introduced and no
information is transmitted upon it.
[0011] Not all user equipments may be able to monitor the whole
system bandwidth. In case a user equipment does not monitor the
whole system bandwidth, but only a subset of it, such devices are
limited to monitor the smaller bandwidth symmetrically around the
DC subcarrier. This is due to leakage of the local oscillator of
the UE, wherein the centre frequency of the local oscillator should
coincide with the DC subcarrier. Such a UE typically relies on DMRS
for data demodulation and Enhanced PDCCH (ePDCCH) which span only a
fraction of the system bandwidth for control signalling.
SUMMARY
[0012] The object is to obviate at least some of the problems
outlined above. In particular, it is an object to provide a User
Equipment, UE, supporting communication in a multicarrier radio
communication system and a method therein for receiving information
from a Radio Base Station, RBS, wherein a bandwidth of the UE is
adjusted to correspond to a determined bandwidth and a centre
frequency of the bandwidth does not coincide with a predetermined
subcarrier. These objects and others may be obtained by providing a
UE and a method in a UE according to the independent claims
attached below.
[0013] According to an aspect a method in a UE supporting
communication in a multicarrier radio communication system for
receiving information from an RBS is provided. The method comprises
determining a bandwidth by which the UE will receive information,
the bandwidth comprising a plurality of subcarriers. The method
also comprises adjusting a bandwidth of the UE to correspond to the
determined bandwidth by which the UE will receive information; and
fine tuning a local oscillator of the UE such that a centre
frequency of a local oscillator does not coincide with a
predetermined subcarrier transmitted from the RBS.
[0014] According to an aspect, a UE supporting communication in a
multicarrier radio communication system adapted for receiving
information from an RBS is provided. The UE comprises a processing
unit adapted to determine a bandwidth by which the UE will receive
information, the bandwidth comprising a plurality of subcarriers,
and to adjust a bandwidth of the UE to correspond to the determined
bandwidth by which the UE will receive information. The UE also
comprises a local oscillator adapted to position the bandwidth of
the UE with regards to frequency, wherein the processing unit
further is adapted to tune the local oscillator such that a centre
frequency of the local oscillator does not coincide with a
predetermined subcarrier transmitted from the RBS.
[0015] The method in the UE, or performed by the UE, and the UE
itself have several advantages. It is ensured that a UE camping
outside the centre of a system bandwidth will not receive critical
information located on a centre subcarrier which is affected by the
local oscillator interference. A UE not monitoring the whole system
bandwidth is enabled to camp on, or monitor, a sub-bandwidth of the
system bandwidth located in frequency anywhere within the whole
system bandwidth. It enables scheduling flexibility and the use of
less expensive receiver circuitry since a local oscillator leakage
need not be suppressed.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0016] Embodiments will now be described in more detail in relation
to the accompanying drawings, in which:
[0017] FIG. 1a is an exemplifying LTE downlink physical
resource
[0018] FIG. 1b illustrates the LTE time-domain structure.
[0019] FIG. 2 illustrates mapping of LTE physical control channels,
data channels and cell specific reference signals within a downlink
subframe.
[0020] FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method in a UE for receiving
information according to an exemplifying embodiment.
[0021] FIG. 4 illustrates an example of the location with regards
to frequency of a UE specific DC subcarrier.
[0022] FIG. 5 illustrates an example of the bandwidth of the UE
comprising an even number of PRBs.
[0023] FIG. 6 illustrates an example of the bandwidth of the UE
comprising an odd number of PRBs.
[0024] FIG. 7 illustrates an example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
odd number of PRBs.
[0025] FIG. 8 illustrates another example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
odd number of PRBs.
[0026] FIG. 9 illustrates an example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
even number of PRBs.
[0027] FIG. 10 illustrates another example of the position of the
UE specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising
an even number of PRBs.
[0028] FIG. 11 illustrates an example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
odd number of PRBs.
[0029] FIG. 12 illustrates an example of comparing the position of
two alternative options for the placement of the UE specific DC
subcarrier.
[0030] FIG. 13 illustrates another example of the position of the
UE specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising
an even number of PRBs.
[0031] FIG. 14 illustrates yet an example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
even number of PRBs.
[0032] FIG. 15 illustrates an example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
odd number of PRBs.
[0033] FIG. 16 illustrates another example of the position of the
UE specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising
an odd number of PRBs.
[0034] FIG. 17 is a block diagram of a UE adapted to receive
information according to an exemplifying embodiment.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0035] Briefly described, embodiments of a UE supporting
communication in a multicarrier radio communication system and a
method therein for receiving information from a RBS are provided.
According to the embodiment, the UE is not required to monitor the
whole system bandwidth and is further not required to monitor
smaller bandwidth symmetrically around the DC subcarrier.
[0036] An exemplifying embodiment of such a method in a UE will now
be described with reference to FIG. 3.
[0037] FIG. 3 illustrates the method 300 in a UE, supporting
communication in a multicarrier radio communication system, for
receiving information from an RBS comprising determining 310 a
bandwidth by which the UE will receive information, the bandwidth
comprising a plurality of subcarriers. The method also comprises
adjusting 320 a bandwidth of the UE to correspond to the determined
bandwidth by which the UE will receive information; and fine tuning
330 a local oscillator of the UE such that a centre frequency of a
local oscillator does not coincide with a predetermined subcarrier
transmitted from the RBS.
[0038] When a UE connects to an RBS, the UE and the RBS exchange
different kinds of information, e.g. synchronisation, transmission
modes and so on. The UE determines a bandwidth by which the UE will
receive information. Receiving information comprises receiving data
transmission(s) from the RBS, reading or receiving reference
signals, RSs, etc. The information is received on a plurality of
different subcarriers. The subcarriers make up the bandwidth by
which the UE will receive information. In the example of LTE, 12
contiguous 15 kHz subcarriers in the frequency domain are defined
as, or make up, a PRB. Consequently, in the example of LTE, the
determined bandwidth may be expressed both as a number of PRBs or a
number of subcarriers.
[0039] Once the UE has determined the bandwidth by which the UE
will receive information, the UE adjusts 320 a bandwidth of the UE
to correspond to the determined bandwidth by which the UE will
receive information.
[0040] For example, assume the system bandwidth is 100 PRBs. The UE
may determine bandwidth by which the UE will receive information to
be e.g. 6 PRBs, This means that the bandwidth of the UE is quite
smaller than the system bandwidth and the UE adjusts its bandwidth
to be 6 PRBs in this example.
[0041] Thereafter, the method comprises fine tuning 330 the local
oscillator of the UE such that a centre frequency of a local
oscillator does not coincide with a predetermined subcarrier
transmitted from the RBS. In other words, the UE has a local
oscillator, which described above may be associated with leakage
such that the centre frequency of the local oscillator may create
relatively large interference that after demodulations deteriorates
the subcarrier corresponding to that frequency, The UE thus tunes
the local oscillator such that a centre frequency of a local
oscillator does not coincide with a predetermined subcarrier
transmitted from the RBS. This centre frequency is hereinafter also
referred to as a UE specific DC subcarrier.
[0042] The predefined subcarrier may carry information which should
not be lost to the UE due to the leakage of the local oscillator as
will be described below.
[0043] The method in the UE, or performed by the UE, has several
advantages. It is ensured that a UE camping outside the centre of a
system bandwidth will not receive critical information located on a
centre subcarrier which is affected by the local oscillator
interference. A UE not monitoring the whole system bandwidth is
enabled to camp on, or monitor, a sub-bandwidth of the system
bandwidth located in frequency anywhere within the whole system
bandwidth. It enables scheduling flexibility and the use of less
expensive receiver circuitry since a local oscillator leakage need
not be suppressed.
[0044] According to an embodiment, the predefined subcarrier
comprises a Demodulation Reference Signal, DMRS.
[0045] DMRSs are sent on several, but not all, subcarriers within a
PRB. The DMRSs are very important for demodulation purposes and it
should be ensured that a subcarrier coinciding with the centre
frequency of the local oscillator, the UE specific DC subcarrier,
never contains DMRSs. In other words, it should be ensured that the
DMRSs are never punctured and never transmitted on the subcarrier
coinciding with the UE specific DC subcarrier.
[0046] However, information not targeting the UE, or not
specifically intended for the UE, such as e.g. Cell-specific
Reference Signals, CRSs may be transmitted.
[0047] This is ensured by the UE fine tuning its local oscillator
such that the centre frequency thereof, i.e. the UE specific DC
subcarrier, does not coincide with a predetermined subcarrier
transmitted from the RBS, i.e. a subcarrier comprising a DMRS.
[0048] According to an embodiment, the predefined subcarrier
comprises a Physical Downlink Shared Channel, PDSCH.
[0049] Since the UE may likely not be able to receive information
on the subcarrier coinciding with the UE specific DC subcarrier, it
should be ensured that no PDSCH is sent on that subcarrier.
[0050] However, information not targeting the UE, or not
specifically intended for the UE, such as e.g. Cell-specific
Reference Signals, CRSs may be transmitted. Another example of
information that may be transmitted is information targeting
another UE, e.g. the same resource block is scheduled in Multi User
Multiple Input Multiple Output, MU-MIMO, fashion for the UE in
question and another UE.
[0051] This is ensured by the UE fine tuning its local oscillator
such that the centre frequency thereof, i.e. the UE specific DC
subcarrier, does not coincide with a predetermined subcarrier
transmitted from the RBS, i.e. a subcarrier comprising a PDSCH.
[0052] According to still an embodiment, determining the bandwidth
by which the UE will receive information comprises receiving
information from the RBS indicating the bandwidth.
[0053] The RBS instructs, in one example, the UE to use a specific
bandwidth by which the UE will receive information. In this manner,
the RBS is enabled to spread out a plurality of UEs not needing to,
or not being able to, monitor the whole system bandwidth all over
the system bandwidth. The RBS sends information, e.g. by a
signalling message, to the UE indicating the bandwidth by which the
UE will receive information. In this manner, the UE determined the
bandwidth in question. The UE may also determine the bandwidth by
receiving RRC signalling.
[0054] In an example, the UE is physically restricted by means of
its components to only monitor a limited amount or PRB or
subcarriers. Examples of such UEs are so called low-cost devices,
low-data-rate devices and narrowband devices. In this example, the
UE determines the bandwidth that it is capable of monitoring and
may additionally receive information from the RBS where in the
system bandwidth, with regards to frequency, the UE should receive
information.
[0055] According to still an embodiment, determining 110 a
bandwidth by which the UE will receive information comprises
determining the number of subcarriers of the bandwidth and/or a
location of the subcarriers with regard to frequency within a
system bandwidth.
[0056] Assuming again that the system bandwidth is 100 PRBs and
each PRB comprises 12 subcarriers, then determining the bandwidth
by which the UE will receive information comprises in one example
determining the number of subcarriers, or the number of PRBs of
that bandwidth, being a sub-bandwidth of the system bandwidth. E.g.
the bandwidth is determined to be 6, 15 or 63 PRBs out of the 100
constituting the system bandwidth. In a further example,
determining the bandwidth by which the UE will receive information
comprises alternatively or additionally to determine or the
location of the subcarriers with regard to frequency within a
system bandwidth. Again as an example, with the 100 PRBs, the PRBs
are numbered 0-99 and determining the bandwidth by which the UE
will receive information comprises determining to monitor PRBs 8,
9, 10, 11 and 12; or PRBs 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28. The number of
PRBs may be odd or even.
[0057] As explained above, once the number of subcarriers (or PRBs)
comprised in the bandwidth, i.e. a sub-bandwidth of the system
bandwidth, by which the UE will receive information is determined
and where, with regard to frequency, said subcarriers are located
within the system bandwidth, the UE adjusts a bandwidth of the UE
to correspond to the determined bandwidth by which the UE will
receive information, i.e. the number of subcarriers. Then the UE
fine tuning 330 the local oscillator of the UE such that a centre
frequency of a local oscillator does not coincide with a
predetermined subcarrier transmitted from the RBS to make sure that
the UE specific DC does not coincide with a subcarrier carrying
DMRS(s) or alternatively PDSCH.
[0058] The UE comprises in an example at least one filter, which
determines the bandwidth of the UE. The filter or filters are
adjustable by selecting different filter parameters. In this
example, adjusting the bandwidth of the UE to correspond to the
determined bandwidth by which the UE will receive information
comprises selecting at least one filter parameter associated with
at least one filter in the UE, whereby the bandwidth of the UE is
adjusted according to the selected parameter(s).
[0059] According to an embodiment, information indicating which
subcarrier is the predetermined subcarrier is signalled from the
RBS.
[0060] In this embodiment, the UE is informed which subcarrier in
the bandwidth by which the UE will receive information, is the
predetermined subcarrier so that the UE will know which subcarrier
should not coincide with the UE specific DC subcarrier, or the
centre frequency of a local oscillator. The signalling may be
performed by RRC signalling, MAC signalling, L1/2 control
signalling comprising information of the transmission of the
predetermined subcarrier. It shall be pointed out that any
subcarrier carrying DMRS(s) in one example and PDSCH in another
example constitute the predetermined subcarrier.
[0061] According to yet an embodiment, information indicating which
subcarrier is the predetermined subcarrier is determined by the
UE.
[0062] This may be accomplished e.g. during the time when the UE
connects to the RBS, the RBS configures the UE or the RBS schedules
the UE and they exchange different kinds of information. During
this connection procedure, the UE obtains, in an example,
information regarding the transmission of DMRS(s), Cell-specific
Reference Signals. The UE stores this information and uses it to
determine which subcarrier is the predetermined subcarrier that
should not coincide with the centre frequency of the local
oscillator of the UE.
[0063] According to still an embodiment, wherein if the centre
frequency of the local oscillator coincides with the predetermined
subcarrier, then the method comprises selecting at least one filter
parameter to expand the bandwidth of the UE to include at least a
portion of at least one additional subcarrier and tuning the local
oscillator to shift the centre frequency of the oscillator towards
an edge of the bandwidth in order for the centre frequency of the
oscillator not coinciding with the predetermined subcarrier.
[0064] The UE determines the centre frequency of its local
oscillator, which frequency corresponds to the UE specific DC
subcarrier. The UE also checks if the UE specific DC subcarrier
coincides with the predetermined subcarrier. If this is the case,
the UE should prevent this from happening. The UE thus selects at
least one filter parameter to expand the bandwidth of the UE to
include at least a portion of at least one additional subcarrier.
It shall be pointed out that the UE may select a parameter to
expand the bandwidth of the UE to include a plurality of
subcarriers. Further, the bandwidth may be expanded at one edge of
the bandwidth or at both edges of the bandwidth. Then the UE tunes
the local oscillator to shift the centre frequency of the
oscillator towards an edge of the bandwidth in order for the centre
frequency of the oscillator not coinciding with the predetermined
subcarrier.
[0065] As described above, the UE may comprise at least one filter,
which determines the bandwidth of the UE. The filter or filters are
adjustable by selecting different filter parameters. In order to
expand the bandwidth, the UE selects at least one filter parameter
associated with at least one filter in the UE in order to expand
the bandwidth to include at least a portion of at least one
additional subcarrier.
[0066] The UE additionally tunes the local oscillator in order to
shift the UE specific DC subcarrier away from the predetermined
subcarrier towards either the lower edge or the higher edge,
frequency wise, of the bandwidth of the UE. As described above,
there may be more than one predefined subcarrier and in one example
the predetermined subcarrier comprises DMRS and in another example,
the predetermined subcarrier comprises PDSCH. Depending on where in
frequency the UE specific DC subcarrier is located and where in
frequency the predetermined subcarriers are located, the UE
specific DC subcarrier may be shifted to a subcarrier with higher
or lower frequency. Further, the UE specific DC subcarrier may be
shifted further than just to an adjacent subcarrier in order to not
coincide with the, or any, predetermined subcarrier.
[0067] According to yet an embodiment, wherein if the centre
frequency of the local oscillator coincides with the predetermined
subcarrier, then the method comprises selecting at least one filter
parameter to reduce the bandwidth of the UE to exclude at least a
portion of at least one additional subcarrier and tuning the local
oscillator to shift the centre frequency of the oscillator towards
an edge of the bandwidth in order for the centre frequency of the
oscillator not coinciding with the predetermined subcarrier.
[0068] The UE determines the centre frequency of its local
oscillator, which frequency corresponds to the UE specific DC
subcarrier. The UE also checks if the UE specific DC subcarrier
coincides with the predetermined subcarrier. If this is the case,
the UE should prevent this from happening. The UE thus selects at
least one filter parameter to reduce the bandwidth of the UE to
exclude at least a portion of at least one additional subcarrier.
It shall be pointed out that the UE may select a parameter to
reduce the bandwidth of the UE to exclude a plurality of
subcarriers. Further, the bandwidth may be reduced at one edge of
the bandwidth or at both edges of the bandwidth. Then the UE tunes
the local oscillator to shift the centre frequency of the
oscillator towards an edge of the bandwidth in order for the centre
frequency of the oscillator not coinciding with the predetermined
subcarrier.
[0069] Reducing the bandwidth is performed in a similar manner as
expanding with, with regards to selecting at least one filter
parameter to adjust the bandwidth.
[0070] According to an embodiment, the multicarrier radio
communication system is an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex,
OFDM, based system.
[0071] One example of a multicarrier radio communication system
employing OFDM is LTE, which has been exemplified above.
[0072] FIG. 4 illustrates an example of the location with regards
to frequency of a UE specific DC subcarrier. In this example the
system bandwidth comprises N number of PRBs. In this example, N is
an even number and the bandwidth of the UE is 3 PRBs and located in
frequency to comprise PRBs N/2+3, N/2+2 and N/2+1. The DC
subcarrier of the system bandwidth where the RBS will not transmit
any information is located between PRBs N/2-1 and N/2. FIG. 4 also
illustrates the UE specific subcarrier being located in the middle
of the bandwidth of the UE which is in the middle of PRB N/2+2.
[0073] It shall be pointed out that in case a PRB comprises an even
number of subcarriers, e.g. in LTE 12 subcarriers, then there will
not be one subcarrier located exactly in the middle of the
bandwidth of the UE. Rather, there will be two subcarriers which
are located in the middle of the bandwidth of the UE. In case none
of those two is the predetermined subcarrier, the UE may tune the
local oscillator such that the centre frequency of the oscillator,
i.e. the UE specific DC subcarrier coincides with either one of
those two subcarriers in the middle.
[0074] In an example when the predetermined subcarrier comprises
DMRS and the UE fine tunes the local oscillator of the UE such that
the centre frequency of the local oscillator does not coincide with
the predetermined subcarrier transmitted from the RBS, the centre
frequency of the oscillator may coincide with a subcarrier
comprising PDSCH. If this is the case, the RBS may consider, during
link adaptation, that the UE will not be able to fully use the
information contained on the subcarrier coinciding with the centre
frequency of the local oscillator. In an extreme case, the UE will
just ignore the information of this subcarrier.
[0075] In an example, the bandwidth of the UE comprises an even
number of PRBs, this is illustrated in FIG. 5. In FIG. 5, each PRB
comprises 12 subcarriers so that there is not one single subcarrier
at the centre of the bandwidth of the UE. In this example, the UE
specific DC subcarrier is placed, by fine tuning the local
oscillator, at the edge subcarrier of one of the two PRBs in the
centre of the bandwidth of the UE. FIG. 5 also illustrates that it
may be the case that the UE requires symmetry around the UE
specific DC subcarrier, wherein the top subcarrier in PRB 3 is
ignored by the UE. In this manner, the UE specific subcarrier
becomes located, frequency wise, in the middle of the bandwidth of
the UE.
[0076] In an example, the bandwidth of the UE comprises an odd
number of PRBs, this is illustrated in FIG. 6. In FIG. 6, each PRB
comprises 12 subcarriers so that there is not one single subcarrier
at the centre of the bandwidth of the UE. In this example, the UE
specific DC subcarrier is placed, by fine tuning the local
oscillator, at the centre subcarrier of the centre PRB (PRB 1) in
the centre of the bandwidth of the UE. FIG. 6 also illustrates that
it may be the case that the UE requires symmetry around the UE
specific DC subcarrier, wherein the bottom subcarrier in PRB 0 is
ignored by the UE. In this manner, the UE specific subcarrier
becomes located, frequency wise, in the middle of the bandwidth of
the UE.
[0077] In both example above illustrated in FIGS. 5 and 6, the UE
specific DC subcarrier is not exactly in the middle of the
allocated subcarriers since the number of subcarriers allocated to
a UE is always even (a resource block has an even number of
subcarriers). If it is required that the DC subcarriers is exactly
in the middle of the UE bandwidth (since local oscillator
interference occurs exactly in the centre of the received bandwidth
and the UE specific DC subcarrier should be there) the outermost
subcarrier could be left unallocated, i.e. no information targeting
the UE is transmitted. The UE could in this case use a main
reception bandwidth slightly narrower than the allocated PRBs. If
PDSCH is anyway transmitted on these subcarriers but the UE uses a
slightly narrower filter a more robust modulation and coding scheme
could be used during link adaptation compensating for this
lost/less usable subcarrier. Alternatively, the UE simply ignores
the information transmitted on that outermost subcarrier.
[0078] Link adaptation is the process in which the scheduler
determines the resources upon which the UE will be scheduled and
also the modulation and coding format. If the scheduler is aware
that the UE will not be able to use all information transmitted on
all subcarriers it may use a more robust modulation and coding
scheme to compensate for this loss. FIGS. 5 and 6 are examples of
reducing the bandwidth of the UE as has also been explained
above.
[0079] Alternatively, instead of the RBS leaving a subcarrier
unallocated, or the UE ignoring the subcarrier, i.e. reducing the
bandwidth of the UE, the UE could expand its receiver bandwidth to
receive an extra subcarrier on at least one band edge as described
above. Also in this case the UE specific DC subcarrier becomes
centred with regards to frequency.
[0080] In another example, the UE receives signalling from the RBS
indicating a subcarrier in the bandwidth of the UE which shall be
the UE specific DC subcarrier. The UE then tunes the local
oscillator so that the centre frequency of the local oscillator
corresponds to the UE specific DC subcarrier. In this manner, the
RBS controls the UE so that the RBS has control of where the UE
specific DC subcarrier is placed in frequency and may thereafter
schedule e.g. PDSCH in order to avoid the UE specific DC
subcarrier.
[0081] In another example, the UE may determine the UE specific DC
subcarrier based on a rule. If the number of PRBs in the bandwidth
of the UE is denoted N and are labelled from 0 to N-1, one
exemplifying rule is:
N is even: PRB=N/2-1, subcarrier is L-1, N is odd: PRB=floor (N/2),
subcarrier=L/2, where L is the number of subcarriers per PRB. In
LTE there are L=12 subcarriers per PRB. Subcarriers are labelled 0
to L-1 within a PRB.
[0082] Another exemplifying rule is:
N is even: PRB=N/2, subcarrier is 0, N is odd: PRB=floor (N/2),
subcarrier=L/2.
[0083] Yet another exemplifying rule is:
N is even: PRB=N/2-1, subcarrier is L-1, N is odd: PRB=floor (N/2),
subcarrier=L/2-1.
[0084] Yet another exemplifying rule is:
N is even: PRB=N/2, subcarrier is 0, N is odd: PRB=floor (N/2),
subcarrier=U2-1.
[0085] FIG. 7 illustrates an example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
odd number of PRBs. In FIG. 7, the DMRSs are shown for antenna port
7, 8, 11 and 13 in LTE. If more than dual-layer transmission should
be supported then three and more layers require one more antenna
ports out of the set {9, 10, 12, 14} for the UE.
[0086] To ensure that the UE specific DC subcarrier coincides with
the centre of the bandwidth of the UE, or the received bandwidth,
the outermost subcarrier of the lowest PRB is outside the main
reception bandwidth i.e. the UE receiver filter starts to filter
out this subcarrier. In other words, the bandwidth is reduced to
exclude this subcarrier at this edge of the bandwidth of the UE.
Since the bandwidth of the UE is symmetric around the UE specific
DC subcarrier (to be exact the bandwidth of the UE is symmetric
around the subcarrier which is hit by local oscillator interference
and this subcarrier should overlap with the UE specific DC
subcarrier) two extra subcarriers are within the receiver bandwidth
on the opposite band edge. In other words, the bandwidth of the UE
is expanded on this opposite edge of the bandwidth to include two
more subcarriers. This example illustrates that the bandwidth of
the UE may be reduced at one edge of the bandwidth and expanded at
the opposite edge of the bandwidth in order to shift the UE
specific DC subcarrier away from the predetermined subcarrier.
[0087] The information transmitted on the extra included
subcarriers is typically not intended for the UE. The subcarrier
that is not received in the lowest PRB (PRB 0) can either be left
empty or the RBS transmits information on it but the UE cannot
utilize this information to its full extend. In the latter case the
RBS could use a more robust modulation and coding scheme that
considers that the UE may not be able to receive the lowest
subcarrier.
[0088] The UE has a bandwidth allocation corresponding to an odd
number of PRBs (3 in this example). The UE specific DC subcarrier
is introduced in the middle PRB (PRB 1). The bottom patterned
subcarrier is outside the main reception bandwidth of the receive
filter, but within the bandwidth scheduled to the UE. Since the UE
receiver bandwidth is symmetric around the UE specific DC
subcarrier the top two patterned subcarriers are within the main
reception bandwidth of the UE, even though these subcarriers are
probably intended for another UE. Only PRBs of the UE are shown.
Only DMRS for antenna ports {7, 8, 11, 13} are shown.
[0089] Alternatively, instead of excluding the lowest subcarrier as
in FIG. 7, the UE can implement a slightly wider receive filter to
include this subcarrier as well as an extra subcarrier at the other
band edge that is within the extended receiver bandwidth. This
extra subcarrier is typically indented for another UE. See FIG.
8.
[0090] FIG. 8 illustrates another example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
odd number of PRBs.
[0091] The UE has a bandwidth allocation corresponding to an odd
number of PRBs (3 in this example). The UE specific DC subcarrier
is introduced in the middle PRB. All subcarriers allocated to the
UE are received. Since the UE receiver bandwidth is symmetric
around the UE specific DC subcarrier, also the top three patterned
subcarriers are within the main reception bandwidth of the UE, even
though these subcarriers are probably intended for another UE. Only
PRBs of the UE are shown. Only DMRS for antenna ports {7, 8, 11,
13} are shown.
[0092] FIG. 9 illustrates an example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
even number of PRBs.
[0093] The UE has a bandwidth allocation corresponding to an even
number of PRBs (4 in this example). The bottom patterned subcarrier
is outside the main reception bandwidth of the receive filter. Only
PRBs of the UE are shown. Only DMRS for antenna ports {7, 8, 11,
13} are shown. In this example, the bandwidth of the UE has been
reduced at the lower edge of the bandwidth to exclude the bottom
subcarrier in order to position the UE specific DC subcarrier
symmetrically in the centre of the bandwidth of the UE.
[0094] FIG. 10 illustrates another example of the position of the
UE specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising
an even number of PRBs. In this example, the bandwidth of the UE is
slightly increased to include one additional subcarrier at the
upper band edge.
[0095] The UE has a bandwidth allocation corresponding to an even
number of PRBs (4 in this example). All subcarriers allocated to
the UE are received. Since the UE receiver bandwidth is symmetric
around the UE specific DC subcarrier also the top patterned
subcarrier is within the main reception bandwidth of the UE, even
though that subcarrier probably is intended for another UE. Only
PRBs of the UE are shown. Only DMRS for antenna ports {7, 8, 11,
13} are shown.
[0096] If one or more antenna ports out of the set {9, 10, 12, 14}
are used (even though in 3.sup.rd Generation Partnership Project,
3GPP, Release-10 these antenna ports are only needed for
transmissions with three and more layers) the DMRS are placed at
different subcarriers and thus also the UE specific DC
subcarrier.
[0097] FIG. 11 illustrates an example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
odd number of PRBs. In this example, the receiver main reception
bandwidth, i.e. the bandwidth of the UE, is slightly larger than
the allocated PRBs. All subcarriers within the allocated PRBs as
well as an extra subcarrier are within the main reception
bandwidth.
[0098] The UE has a bandwidth allocation corresponding to an odd
number of PRBs (3 in this example). The UE specific DC subcarrier
is introduced in the middle PRB. All subcarriers allocated to the
UE are received, i.e. the UE does not reduce the bandwidth at any
of the edges of the bandwidth. Since the UE receiver bandwidth is
symmetric around the UE specific DC subcarrier also the top
patterned subcarrier is within the main reception bandwidth of the
UE, even though this subcarrier is probably intended for another
UE. In other words, the UE has selected at least one filter
parameter to expand the bandwidth of the UE to include one
additional subcarrier at the upper edge of the UE bandwidth. Only
PRBs of the UE are shown. Only DMRS for antenna ports {9, 10, 12,
14} are shown.
[0099] FIG. 12 illustrates an example of comparing the position of
two alternative options for the placement of the UE specific DC
subcarrier. The position of the UE specific DC subcarrier is
compared for the same odd PRB allocation for DMRS corresponding to
any of antenna ports {7, 8, 11, 13} and with DMRS corresponding to
antenna ports {9, 10, 12, 14}. It can be seen that the position
changes. Which DMRS antenna ports should be used could be a
scheduling decision. The subcarrier that is hit by local oscillator
interference in the UE (and the UE specific DC subcarrier that does
not contain any DMRS should fall on top of it) is given by the
centre bandwidth of the receiver of the UE and should therefore not
dynamically be changed (so-called Radio Frequency, RF,
retuning)
[0100] The UE has a bandwidth allocation corresponding to an odd
number of PRBs (3 in this example). In the right side the UE is
scheduled with an antenna port (and thus uses DMRS) out of the set
{7, 8, 11, 13}. In the left side the UE is scheduled with an
antenna port (and thus uses DMRS) out of the set {9, 10, 12, 14}.
The frequency position of the UE specific DC subcarrier
changes.
[0101] However, if the DMRS antenna ports dynamically change
through scheduling also the DMRS-free UE specific DC subcarrier
changes which would require the UE to dynamically tune the centre
frequency of the local oscillator to ensure the subcarrier hit by
local oscillator interference follows the UE specific DC
subcarrier. Since this behaviour is not desirable, the DMRS antenna
ports used to schedule the UE should not vary across sets, i.e. a
UE should either use DMRS out of set {7, 8, 11, 13} or {9, 10, 12,
14}. On a slower basis it is of course possible to change the set
of DMRS antenna ports used for a UE, e.g. via RRC signalling. It
could also be that the set of DMRS antenna ports is fixed or
depends on the frequency position the UE camps at.
[0102] FIG. 13 illustrates another example of the position of the
UE specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising
an even number of PRBs. The location of the UE specific DC
subcarrier results in a main reception bandwidth slightly narrower
than the number of allocated PRB, since in order to make sure that
the UE receiver bandwidth is symmetric around the UE specific DC
subcarrier, the bandwidth of the UE is reduced to exclude the four
patterned subcarriers as the lower edge of the bandwidth. It can be
seen in FIG. 13 that it is not possible to have the UE specific DC
subcarrier located in the centre of the "original" bandwidth, i.e.
the four PRBs. This is because the centre four subcarriers all
comprise DMRS. The UE has a bandwidth allocation corresponding to
an even number of PRBs (4 in this example). The four bottom
patterned subcarriers are outside the main reception bandwidth of
the receive filter. Only PRBs of the UE are shown. DMRS for antenna
ports {7, 8, 9, 10} are shown.
[0103] FIG. 14 illustrates yet an example of the position of the UE
specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of the UE comprising an
even number of PRBs. The position of the UE specific DC subcarrier
is the same as in FIG. 13, but instead of reducing the bandwidth at
the lower edge of the UE bandwidth, the bandwidth is instead
expanded at the upper edge of the UE bandwidth. In this manner, the
UE receiver bandwidth is symmetric around the UE specific DC
subcarrier. The expansion of the bandwidth is illustrated be the
four patterned top subcarriers in FIG. 14. The UE has a bandwidth
allocation corresponding to an even number of PRBs (4 in this
example). All subcarriers allocated to the UE are received. Since
the device receiver bandwidth is symmetric around the UE specific
DC subcarrier, also the top four patterned subcarriers are within
the main reception bandwidth of the UE, even though these
subcarriers are probably intended for another UE. Only PRBs of the
UE are shown. DMRS for antenna ports {7, 8, 9, 10} are shown.
[0104] In both FIG. 13 and FIG. 14, equally good locations of the
UE specific DC subcarrier would be the subcarrier below the block
of 4 DMRS, i.e. the four subcarriers in the centre of the
"original" UE bandwidth before expanding or reducing the bandwidth.
Which subcarrier should be the UE specific DC subcarrier (and thus
the centre of the received bandwidth) is in one example hardcoded
in the standard, based on a rule (e.g. depending on the PRB
number), or could be signalled to the UE from the RBS.
[0105] FIGS. 13 and 14 illustrate extreme receiver bandwidth
allocations in the sense that the main reception bandwidth is
minimal as illustrated in FIG. 13 and maximal as illustrated in
FIG. 14. Compromise allocations--e.g. FIG. 14 where the main
reception bandwidth would exclude the lowest subcarrier and only
include 3 extra subcarriers--are also possible.
[0106] In FIG. 13, the number of subcarriers outside the main
reception bandwidth is rather large. If the RBS uses these
subcarriers for data it could compensate the information loss in
these subcarriers at the UE side via a more robust link adaption.
Alternatively the RBS considers these subcarriers as empty during
rate matching and does not use them for data transmission to the
target UE.
[0107] FIGS. 15 and 16 show a similar situation as in FIGS. 13 and
14, where the number of allocated PRB is odd. The same principles
as outlined for FIGS. 13 and 14 also apply here.
[0108] Looking at FIGS. 15 and 16, they illustrate examples of the
position of the UE specific DC subcarrier within the bandwidth of
the UE comprising an odd number of PRBs.
[0109] The bandwidth of the UE corresponds to an odd number of PRBs
(3 in these two examples). Since there is an even number of
subcarriers (3*12=36) in the bandwidth, there is no single
subcarrier that is the centre subcarrier, but two subcarriers are
in the centre of the bandwidth of the UE. These two subcarriers are
both a predetermined subcarrier since they both carry DMRS. Hence,
the UE specific DC subcarrier may not coincide with any of these
two centre subcarriers. Hence, the UE has to make sure that the UE
specific DC subcarrier is positioned either above or beneath these
two subcarriers. In the examples illustrated in FIGS. 15 and 16,
the UE specific DC subcarrier is positioned above these two
subcarriers. Then in order to achieve symmetry around the UE
specific DC subcarrier, the bandwidth of the UE is in one example
reduced as illustrated in FIG. 15 to exclude the three lowest
subcarriers, i.e. lowest in frequency. In FIG. 16, in order to
achieve symmetry around the UE specific DC subcarrier, the
bandwidth of the UE is instead expanded to include three additional
subcarriers at the upper part of the bandwidth of the UE. Only PRBs
of the UE are shown. DMRS for antenna ports {7, 8, 9, 10} are
shown.
[0110] Embodiments herein also relate to a UE supporting
communication in a multicarrier radio communication system adapted
for receiving information from an RBS. The UE has the same
advantages, technical features and objects as the method in the UE,
or performed by the UE. The UE will only be described in brief in
order to avoid unnecessary repetition.
[0111] FIG. 17 is a block diagram of a UE 1700 adapted to receive
information according to an exemplifying embodiment. FIG. 17
illustrates the UE comprising a processing unit 1710 adapted to
determine a bandwidth by which the UE will receive information, the
bandwidth comprising a plurality of subcarriers, and to adjust a
bandwidth of the UE to correspond to the determined bandwidth by
which the UE will receive information. FIG. 17 also illustrates the
UE 1700 comprising a local oscillator 1730 adapted to
locate/position the bandwidth of the UE with regards to frequency,
wherein the processing unit 1710 further is adapted to tune the
local oscillator such that a centre frequency of the local
oscillator does not coincide with a predetermined subcarrier
transmitted from the RBS.
[0112] The UE has several advantages. It is ensured that a UE
camping outside the centre of a system bandwidth will not receive
critical information located on a centre subcarrier which is
affected by the local oscillator interference. A UE not monitoring
the whole system bandwidth is enabled to camp on, or monitor, a
sub-bandwidth of the system bandwidth located in frequency anywhere
within the whole system bandwidth. It enables scheduling
flexibility and the use of less expensive receiver circuitry since
a local oscillator leakage need not be suppressed.
[0113] FIG. 17 is an exemplifying illustration of the UE 1700. The
UE may comprise additional or other modules and/or units than
illustrated in FIG. 17. FIG. 17 illustrates the UE further
comprising a receiving unit 1701 and a transmitting unit 1702.
These units may be one and the same or it may comprise several
individual units or devices. For example, the two units 1701 and
1702 may comprise one or more antenna arrangements by means of
which the UE communicates with e.g. a node, point or RBS.
[0114] According to an embodiment, the predefined subcarrier
comprises a Demodulation Reference Signal, DMRS.
[0115] According to yet an embodiment, the predefined subcarrier
comprises a Physical Downlink Shared Channel, PDSCH.
[0116] In still an embodiment, the UE further comprises a receiving
unit 1711 adapted to receive bandwidth information from the RBS,
wherein the processing unit 1710 is adapted to determine a
bandwidth by which the UE will receive information based on the
received bandwidth information.
[0117] In an embodiment, the processing unit 1710 is adapted to
determine the bandwidth by which the UE will receive information by
determining the number of subcarriers of the bandwidth and/or a
location of the subcarriers with regard to frequency within a
system bandwidth.
[0118] According to yet an embodiment, the processing unit 1710 is
adapted to determine the bandwidth by which the UE will receive
information by determining the number of subcarriers of the
bandwidth and/or a location of the subcarriers with regard to
frequency within a system bandwidth.
[0119] According to still an embodiment, the processing unit 1710
further is adapted to determine which subcarrier is the
predetermined subcarrier based on information available to the
UE.
[0120] In an embodiment, the processing unit 1710 further is
adapted to determine if the centre frequency of the local
oscillator 1730 coincides with the predetermined subcarrier. If
this is the case, the processing unit 1710 is adapted to select at
least one filter parameter to expand the bandwidth of the UE to
include at least a portion of at least one additional subcarrier,
and adapted to tune the local oscillator 1730 to shift the centre
frequency of the oscillator towards and edge of the bandwidth in
order for the centre frequency of the oscillator not coinciding
with the predetermined subcarrier.
[0121] In still an embodiment, the processing unit 1710 further is
adapted to determine if the centre frequency of the local
oscillator 1730 coincides with the predetermined subcarrier. If
this is the case, the processing unit 1710 is adapted to select at
least one filter parameter to reduce the bandwidth of the UE to
exclude at least a portion of at least one subcarrier, and adopted
to tune the local oscillator 1730 to shift the centre frequency of
the oscillator towards an edge of the bandwidth in order for the
centre frequency of the oscillator not coinciding with the
predetermined subcarrier.
[0122] According to an embodiment, the multicarrier radio
communication system is an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex,
OFDM, based system.
[0123] In FIG. 17, the UE is also illustrated comprising a
receiving unit 1701 and a transmitting unit 1702. Through these two
units, the UE is adapted to communicate with other nodes and/or
entities in the wireless communication network. The receiving unit
1701 may comprise more than one receiving arrangement. For example,
the receiving unit may be connected to an antenna, by means of
which the UE is enabled to communicate with other nodes and/or
entities in the wireless communication network. Similarly, the
transmitting unit 412 may comprise more than one transmitting
arrangement, which in turn are connected an antenna, by means of
which the UE is enabled to communicate with other nodes and/or
entities in the wireless communication network. The UE further
comprises a memory 1720 for storing data. Further, the UE is
illustrated comprising a processing unit 1710 which in turns may
comprise different modules. It shall be pointed out that this is
merely an illustrative example and the UE may comprise more, less
or other units which execute the functions of the UE in the same
manner as the units illustrated in FIG. 17.
[0124] It should be noted that FIG. 17 merely illustrates various
functional units in the UE in a logical sense. The functions in
practice may be implemented using any suitable software and
hardware means/circuits etc. Thus, the embodiments are generally
not limited to the shown structures of the UE and the functional
units. Hence, the previously described exemplary embodiments may be
realised in many ways. For example, one embodiment includes a
computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that
are executable by the processing unit for executing the method
steps in the UE. The instructions executable by the computing
system and stored on the computer-readable medium perform the
method steps of the present invention as set forth in the
claims.
[0125] FIG. 17 schematically shows an embodiment of a UE 1700.
Comprised in the UE 1700 are here a processing unit 1710, e.g. with
a DSP (Digital Signal Processor). The processing unit 1710 may be a
single unit or a plurality of units to perform different actions of
procedures described herein. The UE 1710 may also comprise an input
unit for receiving signals from other entities, and an output unit
for providing signal(s) to other entities. The input unit and the
output unit may be arranged as an integrated entity or as one or
more interfaces.
[0126] Furthermore, the UE 1700 comprises at least one computer
program product in the form of a non-volatile memory, e.g. an
EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), a
flash memory and a hard drive. The computer program product
comprises a computer program, which comprises code means, which
when executed in the processing unit 1710 in the UE 1700 causes the
UE 1700 to perform the actions e.g. of the procedure described
earlier in conjunction with FIG. 3.
[0127] The computer program may be configured as a computer program
code structured in computer program modules. Hence, in an
exemplifying embodiment, the code means in the computer program of
the UE 1700 comprises a determining module for determining a
bandwidth by which the UE will receive information, the bandwidth
comprising a plurality of subcarriers. The computer program further
comprises an adjusting module for adjusting a bandwidth of the UE
to correspond to the determined bandwidth by which the UE will
receive information. Still further, the computer program comprises
a tuning module for fine tuning a local oscillator of the UE such
that a centre frequency of a local oscillator does not coincide
with a predetermined subcarrier transmitted from the RBS.
[0128] The computer program modules could essentially perform the
actions of the flow illustrated in FIG. 3, to emulate the UE 1700.
In other words, when the different computer program modules are
executed in the processing unit 1710, they may correspond to the
modules described above.
[0129] Although the code means in the embodiment disclosed above in
conjunction with FIGS. 3 and 17 are implemented as computer program
modules which when executed in the processing unit causes the UE
1700 to perform the actions described above in the conjunction with
figures mentioned above, at least one of the code means may in
alternative embodiments be implemented at least partly as hardware
circuits.
[0130] The processor may be a single CPU (Central processing unit),
but could also comprise two or more processing units. For example,
the processor may include general purpose microprocessors;
instruction set processors and/or related chips sets and/or special
purpose microprocessors such as ASICs (Application Specific
Integrated Circuit). The processor may also comprise board memory
for caching purposes. The computer program may be carried by a
computer program product connected to the processor. The computer
program product may comprise a computer readable medium on which
the computer program is stored. For example, the computer program
product may be a flash memory, a RAM (Random-access memory) ROM
(Read-Only Memory) or an EEPROM, and the computer program modules
described above could in alternative embodiments be distributed on
different computer program products in the form of memories within
the UE 1700.
[0131] It is to be understood that the choice of interacting units,
as well as the naming of the units within this disclosure are only
for exemplifying purpose, and nodes suitable to execute any of the
methods described above may be configured in a plurality of
alternative ways in order to be able to execute the suggested
procedure actions.
[0132] It should also be noted that the units described in this
disclosure are to be regarded as logical entities and not with
necessity as separate physical entities.
[0133] While the embodiments have been described in terms of
several embodiments, it is contemplated that alternatives,
modifications, permutations and equivalents thereof will become
apparent upon reading of the specifications and study of the
drawings. It is therefore intended that the following appended
claims include such alternatives, modifications, permutations and
equivalents as fall within the scope of the embodiments and defined
by the pending claims.
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